Fabapocalypse
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Hi all, my first posting so please be gentle with me!
I was a terrible nail-biter for years but am pleased to say that I have been "clean" for the last seven years and have been making a real effort to look after my nails.
They still sometimes get a little weak and I have the odd problem with peeling, but polished up they don't look too bad now... but when they're "naked" it's a different story.
My nails look a little odd - I think the years of biting have had the effect of "pulling away" the free edge from the plate, so that I have a relatively short "pink bit" and a relatively long "white bit". This is slowly improving as the years go by and they still look a heck of a lot better than when they were gnawed nubs, so I can live with that, but: they are also yellow...
I religiously use good quality basecoat and polishes (OPI, China Glaze, Nails Inc) but they are still yellow! I have tried a couple of high street whitening tablet things, without any improvement, and something called Orly Cutique, a cuticle-cum-stain-remover which has helped a little but not much. I haven't bothered with the various lemon juice/toothpaste theories you hear about as they don't sound effective enough and I'm a little lairy of using anything with hydrogen peroxide in on myself.
I would love to be able to wear more sheer polishes and maybe French but constantly keep my nails covered with more opaque polish.
I enjoy having salon treatments but like a lot of people am on a limited budget so must choose carefully; is there anything out there which would help my nails look cleaner and healthier again (and give me a bit of a pamper into the bargain)?
Many thanks for any help!
I was a terrible nail-biter for years but am pleased to say that I have been "clean" for the last seven years and have been making a real effort to look after my nails.
They still sometimes get a little weak and I have the odd problem with peeling, but polished up they don't look too bad now... but when they're "naked" it's a different story.
My nails look a little odd - I think the years of biting have had the effect of "pulling away" the free edge from the plate, so that I have a relatively short "pink bit" and a relatively long "white bit". This is slowly improving as the years go by and they still look a heck of a lot better than when they were gnawed nubs, so I can live with that, but: they are also yellow...
I religiously use good quality basecoat and polishes (OPI, China Glaze, Nails Inc) but they are still yellow! I have tried a couple of high street whitening tablet things, without any improvement, and something called Orly Cutique, a cuticle-cum-stain-remover which has helped a little but not much. I haven't bothered with the various lemon juice/toothpaste theories you hear about as they don't sound effective enough and I'm a little lairy of using anything with hydrogen peroxide in on myself.
I would love to be able to wear more sheer polishes and maybe French but constantly keep my nails covered with more opaque polish.
I enjoy having salon treatments but like a lot of people am on a limited budget so must choose carefully; is there anything out there which would help my nails look cleaner and healthier again (and give me a bit of a pamper into the bargain)?
Many thanks for any help!